Held annually for high school journalism teachers, the Institute is funded by the Charles and Andrea Overby Journalism Fund endowed with MPF. The camp is administered by the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association on the campus of the University of Mississippi at Oxford.
The three-day program, held at the University of Mississippi, provides training and networking opportunities to help advisers improve their publications. It is named in honor of Mississippi Press Hall of Fame member Charles Overby, a former newspaper executive and graduate of Ole Miss who has a notable career in journalism